A Poetics on Edge: - The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath
Silvianne Blosser
Broschiertes Buch

A Poetics on Edge: - The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath

A study of Sylvia Plath's poetic and poetological developments

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This study takes a close look at the language of Sylvia Plath's poetry and prose in terms of how the poetic language works rather than why she wrote as she did. A detailed analysis of her poems, her short stories and her only novel, The Bell Jar, traces Sylvia Plath's development of a poetics of her own - from monological poems to dialogic prose - based on her own frequent remarks on the writing process in her essays, letters and journals. Sylvia Plath was a writer often torn between traditional and modernist modes of writing and a poetics of the «open hand» as she formulated it. She is pres...